Surreal Science is an off-the-rails salvage job, fashioned into a beautiful cinematic work of abstract sound and vision, featuring the live sounds and performances of three drummers, three guitarists, two bass players and two vocalists – with all of them drawing on a repertoire of 160 songs to create a never-to-be-repeated experience.
The stage is set for seamless transitions between the various iterations of The Surrealists and The Scientists as they pummel, glide, and burn their way through a transcendent set that is built thematically and dynamically, rather than sequenced chronologically, describing their evolution.
The Scientists belligerently eschewed standard melody for minimalism, brutality and abstraction but remained staunchly Rock and Roll. They travelled to the other side of the globe, exploded and imploded, along the way paving the way for Seattle grunge, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dinosaur Junior, Spaceman 3 and scores of others….
The Surrealists …well…. they took up the Scientists‘ cudgel and belligerently wielded it in their own image! Every performance for them was a salvage job, but melody and musical chops weren’t as much to be tossed aside as they were for their predecessors! It was all music, let’s face it! It was all fair game! They realised very quickly that they needn’t paint their abstraction with someone else’s palette. And what a sonic picture they painted.
